Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 2pm CT
Million Tongues Festival Part 2: Astral Folk Luminaries
2:00pm - Nick Garrie (UK)
2:30pm - Alisha Sufit (of Magic Carpet, UK)
3:00pm - Mark Fry (UK)
3:30pm - The Singleman Affair (Chicago)
4:00pm - Ruthann Friedman (LA)
4:30pm - Peter Walker (Peru)
5:00pm - Multimedia Astral Collaborative with Simon Finn, The Singleman Affair, and Plastic Crimewave
Galactic Zoo Dossier, The Singleman Affair, and ESS Present:
Million Tongues Festival Part 2: Astral Folk Luminaries
With mastermind Plastic Crimewave at the helm, we are reviving Million Tongues in an online fest fashion--in the past MT has hosted folks like Terry Reid, Tony Conrad, Bert Jansch, Michael Yonkers, Acid Mothers Temple, Simon Finn---and now we can again feature incredible artists like Mark Fry, Peter Walker, Ruthann Friedman, Nick Garrie, The Singleman Affair, and we are able to have the debut of Alisha Sufit from legendary UK 70s eastern-psychsters Magic Carpet! Also there will be a very, very, special guest tbd!! This will be a fully happening live, so tune in for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see some of these mythical and truly legendary acoustic troubadours...
Special thanks to Steve "Plastic Crimewave" Krakow for using his unbridled and uncanny ability to make the impossible possible as well as to Experimental Sound Studio for their stalwart presence in these trying times and their awesome The Quarantine Concerts series.
There are rumors of a Part 3………
Nick Garrie (UK) 2:00pm (USA Central time)
https://nickgarrie.co.uk/
Nick Garrie is renowned in psychedelic collectors’ circles for his 1970 debut, The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas, a Baroque pop masterpiece effectively buried by nonexistent distribution and promotion in the day. Garrie began writing songs while attending Warwick University, but his interests primarily lay in surrealist literature, poetry and dramatic singers like Jacques Brel. Garrie later had hit records in Europe, touring with Leonard Cohen, and has been back at it with new releases and festival appearances around the globe.
Alisha Sufit (of Magic Carpet, UK) 2:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/AlishaSufitArts
London-based Alisha Sufit, sang with the legendary eastern-influenced band Magic Carpet, whose eponymous first album was released on the UK Mushroom label in 1972. Their lone LP is a highly collectable mix of folk, sitars, and dreamy atmospherics, and has undergone several revivals, as Alisha was approached in the 00's to be part of the Amorphous Androgynous collective, started by Future Sound of London members.
Mark Fry (UK) 3:00pm
https://www.markfry.co.uk/
Mark Fry is both an English painter and psychedelic folk musician since the late 60s. He is best known for his album Dreaming with Alice, released in 1972, which has been hailed as an astral folk classic by critics and a diverse range of musicians. A delicate mix of gentle tunes and wild heady experimentation, the Lp continues to be hailed--leading to a second career for Fry, who has been steadily releasing new albums and even still gigging occasionally.
The Singleman Affair (Chicago) 3:30pm
https://thesinglemanaffair.com/
The Singleman Affair’s downer folk has been a staple in the Chicago psychedelic folk scene for the last 15 years. Following in the footsteps of such artists as Skip Spence, John Martyn, Tim Buckley and Fred Neil, the Singleman Affair drifts through the hazy inner thoughts of rainy afternoons set to fingerpicked acoustic guitars, spiraling strings and haunting atmospherics.
Ruthann Friedman (LA, CA) 4:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/RuthannFriedmanMusic/
Though her best-known composition was the ubiquitous sunny hit "Windy" for the Association, songwriter Ruthann Friedman penned countless tunes throughout the '60s and '70s. Ruthann became friends with scene luminaries like Joni Mitchell, Zappa, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and Van Dyke Parks (who recorded a 45 with her), and recorded her first official solo album in 1971, Constant Companion-- a genius piece of jazzy, introspective folk, now regarded as a classic.
Peter Walker (Peru) 4:30pm
https://www.tompkinssquare.com/peter_walker.htmlGuitarist
Peter Walker came up in the Cambridge MA and Greenwich Village folk scenes of the Sixties. He studied with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, and was Dr. Timothy Leary's musical director, organizing music for the LSD advocate’s “celebrations.” Peter Walker’s 1967 debut album, Rainy Day Raga, features one of the first studio appearances by jazz flautist Jeremy Steig, as well as guitarist Bruce Langhorne, who recorded with Bob Dylan and many others. Rainy Day Raga is a gentle and beautiful fusion of Eastern and Western musical traditions, and one of the earliest examples of a style explored by Sandy Bull several years earlier. A second album, Second Poem to Karmela or, Gypsies Are Important (1969) found Walker going even deeper into Indian instrumentation, playing sarod and sitar. During this time, Peter played or was associated with such musicians as Lowell George, Fred Neil, Tim Hardin, and Joan Baez, among many others. Walker has turned a lot of his studies to Flamenco music, and still been steadily recording and playing gigs.
Special Special Guest - 5pm